For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater.

Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever;

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.

Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:

And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.